How the Work of God Works

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This morning.

I want to very quickly bring you through some thoughts

about how the work works, how to work the works

of God, or how the work of God works. Number One,

begin with whatever comes out from God's mouth. If you

ever want to work the works of God, especially in

difficult times and problematic situations, you must begin with whatever.

See the Bible says, and Jesus said to the devil,

a man shall not live by bread alone, but by

every word that proceeds out the mouth of God.

Amen. So what came out of jesus mouth that day

was his spit. You with me. He began with his spit, And.

Whatever comes out from God's mouth, even if it's a spit,

is going to be good. So always begin with whatever

comes up from God's mouth. And that's how it started.

Out of Jesus' mouth came something, and some of us

might go like, oh that's disgusting, Oh that's unreasonable, Oh

that's impractical. Oh that's awful. You know, that's unfair in

the eyes of the world. That could even be dirty.

What's the word old school or someone who wants to

argue that you know, this is the new world that

we are living in, and you are old school and

you're irrelevant.

Sometimes it looks like a spirit.

But we as Christians, we know that anything that comes

off of God's mouth it's good.

But what did you do? He spat on the ground

and he made clay.

And when I think about ground, I remember that all

of us were made out of the earth. You know,

Adam was made out of the clay, out of the earth,

out of the ground.

You with me.

Out of the ground God made men, and out of

man God made woman. So when I think about ground

and I think about God spitting on the ground and

making clay, he wants us involved before the miracle can happen,

before the works of God can happen. See, God can

do it, but what comes off his mouth is not

like just Genesis chapter one, where he let them be lightened.

There was light and there was no man's involvement. But

today ray Seldom God does that, very seldom. He just says,

let them be light and there was light. He does

that sometimes in our lives, but often he uses us

and Jesus will actually turn water into wine. Why can't

he just bring wine from heaven. He will tell the

servants go and do this, and they had to fill

the water pots to the brim. He wants men to

be involved. Of course, he can do it on his own,

but he wants to involve ext church. He wants to

involve you. He wants to involve every church planter. He

wants to involved every homes leader. Here, are you see

with me, every elder, every pastor, every leader. Of course

he can do it himself, but he he spits on

the ground, he speaks to us, something comes out of

his mouth onto clay, and with this clay. You know,

the next thing is he anointed the man's eyes. So

God's spit or rather what came out of his mouth

onto clay, onto the ground, onto us, making clay and

using us now to annoying the eyes of the men.

This is very important to understand because we don't know

the equation, then miracles don't happen. If we don't know

that God wants to use us, you know, it doesn't happen.

We're just praying God, you do it, he says, I

will I want to spit on you.

I'm going to make clay.

Are you okay with that not you know, and sometimes

you know, he doesn't just deal with us in ways

that are just happy, go lucky, you know. Sometimes it's

tough and it's like a spit on us. He's like, oh, God,

are you rejecting me? No, it's actually doing something in

your life. And you go like, yeah, but God, why

do you spit on me?

You know? Why is this so terrible?

And sometimes God can actually take testings and turn into testimonies,

and often he does that so he annoys the eyes

of the blind, of those in need, of the communities

around us, Amen, both young and old. So use apply

the anointing he gives to put What is anointing? This

is the summarized version of anointing. To me, it is

something of God on us to do something that only

God can do through us. So when he gives you anointing,

it just means that you have received something from God

to do what He wants to do through us. That's

what anointing is. Some people, you know, break it down

into oil and then break it down into how the

olive was crushed and how the oil comes out, and

therefore anointing cannot come true. Anointing cannot come without crushing,

you know. And there's a beautiful study of anointing oil

coming from the olive that needs to be crushed. Okay,

so anointing comes to crushing, and so you can study

that for another to But for me, in simplicity is

I can do this only because there's anointing on me,

meaning it comes from Him to do what he wants

me to do for him. And without that anointing, without

that gift, without that enabling power from.

Him, you won't be able to do.

It. Is as simple as that, And that's why the

anointing is so important because it's a gift from God.

It's something from God. Is actually it actually belongs to God.

That power, that ability, you know, that empowering is God's.

It came from him. It up comes on you the clay,

so that you can do what He calls us to do.

So that therefore you know that that's why we preach

so well, those of us who are called to preach,

because that's an anointing.

It's of God.

That's why you know we're able to heal people, able

to even give to people and make a difference in

their lives. Okay, were you okay, that there's an anointing.

But the anointing must be applied. So he took that

clay and applied on the ice.

They see this.

This is where sometimes people miss the point. They miss

the point that he has to come from God's mouth.

They miss the point that they are being involved by

God right, and they missed the point that they are

supposed to take the anointing. The annoyting is not supposed

to just be for you up in the hill somewhere

waiting upon God for forty days. It's not that you

can wait upon God for forty days to receive an anointing.

But the anointing must be applied. He applied it on

the ice. You must go out there and applied into

the community. You have to and you must apply. I

thank God that the word is. I mean, it's so practical.

Though he didn't make the clear and applied on his foot,

on his fingers.

He applied to the exact place that needs healing.

And you're going to find out sometimes where the healing

is in Subannjaya, where the healing is in got the commoning,

where the where the need is in Neilai, where the

need is in sk and then you take what God

has given you and you apply. And I tell you

the truth that you are about to witness a miracle.

But many times, you know, Christians, you know, don't know

that there is this step that they have to use

what God gave.

Them and apply it.

Do something about it on the exact place of need everybody. Okay,

how to work the works of God? Number one, out

of his mouth? Number two, you get involved because you

are the ground, you are the clear he spits on.

And then that anointing what you have received from the

Lord from his mouth, you apply it. Next one is

got three points. What did he say? What did the

blind man say? He told me to go and wash

in the pool of Silon. You will always get clear

instructions from the Lord of what to do next, and

all you need to do is come on obey, and

the miracle is bound to happen. There is no other

reason greater for ex Cotta commoning than what I just.

Share with you.

Loo can say, oh, but there's a lot of lost

souls in cot the communing. Yes Cotta you know doesn't.

Have an X church. Yes, okay, you know a lot

of young people there to be rich.

Okay, No, You can have a lot of reasons why

you start ex church wherever you are, but the best

reason is this.

He spoke, and he spoke to you the clay, and.

He's taking that. He's applying where the need is. And

all you did was, what do you want me to do?

Lord?

Go and washing silm, the pool of silom, and that's

you know, the pool of sion, and slam is sent,

that's what the meaning is sent. He will scent you, guaranteed.

You don't need any other reason. He spoke to me,

And now the anointings upon me to do something, and

then you obey. Yes, I don't understand it. I don't

have enough money.

You know.

I'm building this new room at the back of my house.

You know, for for eleven years I couldn't finish it.

I finished all the rest, but the renovation costs went up,

maybe about fifty percent more than I could afford. So anyway,

I paid up for all the renovation. And at the

back they had the steel rots, you know, these metal

rods still sticking up, you know, like those ugly renovation

and finishing. And for ten years I chose not to see.

You know, some people saw it and go like oh, Kenneth,

you can't do that. You know, you've got to wrap

the otherwise the steel bars will be rusted. So okay now,

and then I go like, okay, and it's four hundred

in just to put plastic around, special plastic around a

pass hundred knows this because they told her. You know,

it's not only ugly, it will rot and all that.

So okay.

So only two years ago, I was on my knees

in my prayer room and I was made to look

out of my window. But this time round, I had

to look at the reality. Right, Sometimes we like to

miss out right on what's really going on in our community.

You know, might higher and I don't want to see

that because you know, there's so many, so many needs,

right you get somebody get overwhelmed. And now I look

out on the day the Lord tells me to look out,

and then he says, see this is so ugly. I'm

your god, you are a pastor. Look what what do

you what? What are your neighbors thinking? Because we when

we see things undeveloped for a few years, you're gonna

who is the owner?

You know, what's happened? Run out of money or what?

You know?

We we say things like that so ugly, you know, right,

And this is a pastor trying to reach his neighborhood.

He's God can't even provide for him, you know, say,

I mean God told me this ten years ago, But

he told me this. Now you get him trying to

say that. He spat you said, and it made It's

like a spirit or a person who can't afford it.

You landed on clay. He's about to apply it. Do

something about the annoying thing I gave you. So I'm like

looking out, oh God, and really not enough money in

the bank. But the instruction is finish it, finish it.

So the obedience came, yes Lord, if you if you

say so, I don't know where the money is coming from. Seriously,

So how many times, guys, we have grown this church

over and over again?

Is how towards Yes Lord? Right?

Yes, Lord, it's not rocket side. No, you don't have

to go Bible school for this. Yes, Lord, go washing solo.

You're asking a blind man to go and wash in

the pool. Come on, lie, you know no, I mean

it sounds very cruel. How may you have ever heard

a cruel word from God? A cruel a god it's

a bit stronger. Yeah, but a miracle is waiting. America

is waiting.

And so.

I started, like, you know, how you start? You get

the architect drawid money and Daniel say Lung says, what's it.

I'm just around the corner. And I called him because

the holy music is Daniel that would draw for you.

So I called Daniel. Daniel says, what's I'm just around

the corner. And then he comes. He knows exactly what

I want, and then he draws, and then you know,

comes the who's the contector? Okay, ken Lion know? But

can I don't know what he will do? So can

you talk to him? And he said, oh, for your

boys are okay, he can pay by instrument. Just take

his time to pay. You know, very few contactors will

do that, all right. And then I say, Halleejah, praise God.

All right, but how to start? Because you need money

to start? He says, just give me thirty thousand deposit. No,

and then I'll start, you know, because I got to

buy materials. So my testimony to you at this point

is the test testimony in progress. Someone wrote a check

for me fifty thousand, all right, the first one. So

I said, oh, Halleyah prays God. And then Ken just lately,

Uh gave us a bill and it was for another

you know, it was for part two and I needed

another another, you know, summer money. And so I remember

if you had fellowshiping with this man, and he's a

man of money. And but as I'm fellowship with Hima,

when I fallish meat with Hima, the Holy Spee tells me,

don't ask him. Don't ask, okay, don't ask you. I'm like, well,

I know, I like and then he's like there, you know,

very friendly conversation, almost like I'll do anything for your

car to look at, you know, and but kill ask

this point he knows he spits on you, spits on you,

and then he lands on this clay and you go,

like my word, and you gotta apply it. You got

If you don't apply it, it won't happen. You gotta

apply on And then you know, I walk away, I

say goodbye to him, and they then then he says

to me, hey, I forgot to give you this, and

then he gave me a white envelope. Right the whole

time right I was with him. Didn't ask because the

Holy speed said so, so teen things. No, so time,

don't ask Breda, can you help me? He gave me

a white Enveloye opened a white velo for another fifty thousand.

So how fifty percent already right? All in one month.

I cried, like you know, I've cried so many times

through my life, right because of how God provided right,

you know, everything right. And then and then I said,

I wrote to him, I said, Brady, you made me

cry again?

No I did.

I told him, I said, I wanted to ask you

and because I know, you know we have this friendship,

but the Holyspit told me, no, you know, don't. And

then he said, well, the Holyspit told me to write

you a check. It just it just kind of reminds

you of God knows why. No, he knows all our needs.

He knows all our needs, all our needs. So I thought,

I've lived, you know, all my stories. And because I

got so many stories of face right, I thought, I

live on now any fresh ones. God, God always wants

to give you fresh stories always, no matter where you're

where you're fifty three sixty three seventy three, you know

you can you keep doing it now, guys, formula doesn't

change one with God instruct obey.

So what did he really say? What do you really said?

Let me look at it again. Uh? Okay.

So the Pharisees also ask him again how he had

received his side. He said to them, look at how

simple his destaiminity is. Ladies and gentlemen. He put clear

in my eyes.

I washed, I.

See you want a different destability.

You want to get more creative with your destabled. No need,

no need.

He put clay on my eyes. I wash, I see,

I know, huh, ask God to morning he's walked. I

did it is huh a man ex church chair, ass

ciber giant. Keep on, hey, you know, and let your

people see it. This is poler children can learn and

do it. Amen, and it's gonna continue until the Lord

comes back. Right, I watched white? Why do I watched?

He told me? Wash?

So why I follower? And now I see the Lord

did it before? He did it again again he's he

just did it for me, or so he'll do it

for you again and again?

What else? As I close?

The theology determines the testimony. Many times, our theology is

the one that stops us. And the theology. Uh, you

know that Jesus was trying to teach us. Uh brought

the man a testimony, but the theology of the Pharisees

was still bound, and that's why they couldn't see. It's

funnier that the Pharisee is asking the man who's black.

You know, they're they're the ones who can't see, although

they've caught Pharisee. Yeah, so the Pharisees focused on. Listen

what they focus on. You can read it again for yourself.

Why it was?

And why do you see? Why can you see a

who you see? You know, they focus on the blind

man's sin. You're a sinner, and you teach us what

you know. And then they focus on why it could

not be.

It cannot be.

Jesus can't heal you. He's a sinner. He heal on Sabbath.

So you see what they focus on. This is the theology.

Theatology is always look at sin, people sin, why it

cannot be done, why it cannot be done, why it

cannot be done right?

And I tell you this church that has got to

look beyond that. Don't keep looking at why.

You know why, my leader, this is why my pastor

did desire no stop enough, because miracles won't happen if

you continue to look at it and then you want

questions answered, you want your dissatisfaction answered enough, because I

tell you what the blind men focus on what he

was before Jesus.

And what he was after Jesus. That's it. Before Jesus.

I was blind after Jesus. I see.

Come on, let's get on with it. Like, guys, let's

focus on the right thing. This is our theology. We

focus on the lot amen. We focus on growth. We

focus on you know, seeing people saved, set free, delivered, healed.

Amen.

Come on, guys, it's only a little time to do

a lot of work. So theology know, hey, he's God

looking at a person. Since he's not, he's looking at

a person. Salvation theology or your theology will stop you

from your testimony, or he will give you a testimony. Okay,

let's let's focus. The Pharisees admitted they did not know

who Jesus was. True, I don't know who he is.

I don't know who is and we're therefore bound by

a theology that was totally opposite to what and who

God really was. Their theology was opposite. No, cannot be

like he's a singer, like he healed on Sabbatha. How

can he be of God? What theology is?

That?

Right?

And that was what they were bound by, and they

never lived a breakthrough life. They were actually unqualified even

to represent him. They didn't even really know God. But

a man who was blind ones and now see, was

so simple in his testimony of God? Was it?

He said? Oh, you don't know where he's from. He said, oh,

he's a marvelous thing. Here's somewhere.

The blind man mocked them. Ra said, oh I see,

oh as well. Whatever it is, whether he's or not,

I just know this once I was blind. Now I okay,

you can argue, but theology all you want, you can

argue about this, and that this is the testimony.

This is the track record of ex church.

Also that we have continued to see God move a

man and continue to see God faithful to us, and

we have continued to grow, and we are continually doing

well in spite and despite of you know, maybe one

or two dissatisfied people. That's okay, I mean in Jesus time,

so there were many, all right, so many and John

sixty sixty six, you know, is all left him except

the twelve and then he told the twelve, were you

not the ones I chose? It's all right, a man,

we work with what God has given us. So I

just want to bless you and pray that many more

miracles will happen in your lives. All Right, it's simple, guys,

keep it simple, Keep it simple.

What what?

What was it?

He says? He put clear on my eyes and wash

I see. Keep it simple.

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